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Barnes and Noble Nook
Caveat: I have not tried the Nook. The information below is from information I received at the store or online. You may know by now that I have been resistant to adopting the electronic readers (oddly enough for someone who loves new technology). You also probably know that I love to read (see TracyReaderDad.com) and, to me,…
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ReadyTalk: A Quick Peek
Rating: 3 WaterTowers (a web conferencing application) I had heard about ReadyTalk from some friends. Not one to pass up an opportunity to test an application that I had never heard of, I went to the ReadyTalk web site to download and try the demo. Unfortunately, to participate in the “trial” (you know I like…
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Lifesize Desktop Review
June 2023: Enjoy this History Lesson on Videoconferencing! 🙂 Rating: 4 WaterTowers (for leading the SIP only charge) UPDATE August 24, 2011: Read all about the latest LifeSize products, services, here. If only everything I have tried in the past 20 years were this easy, I’d be a millionaire several times over! 🙂 Lifesize has entered…
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Applause Videoconferencing
UPDATE August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. Enjoy! Rating: 4 WaterTowers (high quality video w multipoint for everyone) As you are aware from previous blog entries, the latest round of desktop videoconferencing applications, while very good, are aimed at the corporate infrastructure and user. If you are a small business standing out…
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Tandberg Movi: A Quick Look
UPDATE: June 2023: The following is an interesting HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. 🙂 Enjoy. Rating: 3 WaterTowers (corporate infrastructure needed) Making a Point-to-Point Call After installation (which was easy even with the Beta version Sean Lessman from Tandberg gave me access to), I decided to give Movi a whirl by first calling an H.323 Endpoint.…
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Phoenix Duet Executive USB Speakerphone Review
Rating: Preliminary 4 WaterTowers (super easy to set up and use) Phil from Quagga sent me the Phoenix Duet Executive USB Speakerphone to look at as a possible replacement for the Chat 50 I have been using for a couple of months now. Installation Of course I am not reading the instructions…..yet. 😉 Interestingly, the…
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Lifesize Room in Action
Even with videoconferencing…. the life of a blogger can get lonely. So when my friend Phil at Quagga invited me to attend the “Lifesize Room in Action” meeting in Folsom, CA….I jumped at the chance. As I arrived I met old friends (some who go way back in videconferencing) and new people (Adam, Spring, and…
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Librestream Onsight Review
Update July 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing! Enjoy. 🙂 Rating: 5 WaterTowers Every now and then I see a product that blows me away. It has been happening a lot lately (a good sign for technology) and it happened again last week with the Librestream Onsight. The fact that it is one-way…
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iocom Review
Rating: 4 WaterTowers Several years ago I met with Jerry and the folks at InSORs. We had an interest at ESnet for a desktop version of the Access Grid (see my previous post on the AG) but also needed H.323 interoperability. InSORs was at the beginning stages of development and we advised them on what…
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Logitech 9000 and ClearOne Chat 50
Logitech 9000 Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers (Installation questions) ClearOne Chat 50 Rating: 5 WaterTowers Overview I was lucky enough to receive (a big “starving blogger” thank you to my generous benefactor) two pieces of equipment that “should” improve my videoconferencing experience or, rather, the experience of those who are videoconferencing with me. Yikes…all my remote friends…
TechyMike: Technology Made Easy 